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Gift Guide: Leica M9 Digital Rangefinder Camera The Leica brand...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:23:36 -0700

Gift Guide: Leica M9 Digital Rangefinder Camera

The Leica brand has represented the ne plus ultra of photographic excellence for nearly a century, and continues to burnish its impeccable rep with its new M9 ($7,000). As beautiful a piece of gadgetry as any we’ve come across, the M9 is somewhat of an oddity in the digital realm: it’s a rangefinder camera (meaning you don’t see through the lens to focus), is essentially all manually controlled (including focus) and is the smallest camera around to pack a full 35mm CCD image sensor. That giant sensor also explains why the M9 can capture positively massive (and gorgeous) 18.5-megapixel images — which, at about 36-megabytes (MBs) a snap, also means you might want to look into a new hard drive before you get snap happy. Nicely, the M9 can also accommodate any existing M-series lenses dating back to 1950s, a further enticement for any film Leica enthusiasts who are still sitting on the digital bench. Any devout shutterbug would kill or die to have one (and considering its $7,000 price tag, it’ll surely cross some minds), though casual shooters who aren’t comfortable messing with ISO, aperture and shutterspeed settings should likely opt for a DSLR with more automatic controls.

new kaleidescope / mandalas

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:12:48 -0700

new kaleidescope / mandalas

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new kaleidescope / mandalas

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new kaleidescope / mandalas

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new kaleidescope / mandalas

new kaleidescope / manadas

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new kaleidescope / manadas

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new kaleidescope / manadas

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:27:10 -0700

“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished...

rocketboom: xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:23:40 -0700

rocketboom:

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

rocketboom: Think Progress » Schwarzenegger’s secret...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:22:59 -0700

rocketboom:

Think Progress » Schwarzenegger’s secret message to the state Assembly: ‘F*ck you.’

billturner: ninakix: “Broken Things” by Livia Marin (via)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:14:50 -0700

billturner:

ninakix:

“Broken Things” by Livia Marin (via)

ammph: Loafing around Kreuzberg (via joaobambu) ...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:14:11 -0700

ammph:

Loafing around Kreuzberg (via joaobambu)

Gutenberg and How Typography is Like Music

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:11:51 -0700

Gutenberg and How Typography is Like Music: givemesomethingtoread: Typography has a visceral and...

Although I rent my apartment in Brooklyn, I do not have a home. My parents are still my home. I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college. I am 38. I wear a backpack and I have no savings. I console myself with the thought that people live longer now, so it makes sense that some of us may take longer to mature.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:09:20 -0700

therichgirlsareweeping: —JONATHAN AMES (via youmightfindyourself:tobia / NYTimes) Let’s talk...

billturner: silhouettes: ShareSomeCandy: jeffrey fisher

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:52:33 -0700

billturner:

silhouettes:

ShareSomeCandy: jeffrey fisher

Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) -...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:50:00 -0700

Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss was an avatar of “structuralism,” a school of thought in which universal “structures” were believed to underlie all human activity, giving shape to seemingly disparate cultures and creations. His work was a profound influence even on his critics, of whom there were many. There has been no comparable successor to him in France. And his writing — a mixture of the pedantic and the poetic, full of daring juxtapositions, intricate argument and elaborate metaphors — resembles little that had come before in anthropology.

His legacy is imposing. “Mythologiques,” his four-volume work about the structure of native mythology in the Americas, attempts nothing less than an interpretation of the world of culture and custom, shaped by analysis of several hundred myths of little-known tribes and traditions. The volumes — “The Raw and the Cooked,” “From Honey to Ashes,” “The Origin of Table Manners” and “The Naked Man,” published from 1964 to 1971 — challenge the reader with their complex interweaving of theme and detail.

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By the 1980s, structuralism as imagined by Mr. Lévi-Strauss had been displaced by French thinkers who became known as poststructuralists: writers like Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. They rejected the idea of timeless universals and argued that history and experience were far more important in shaping human consciousness than universal laws.

“French society, and especially Parisian, is gluttonous,” Mr. Lévi-Strauss responded. “Every five years or so, it needs to stuff something new in its mouth. And so five years ago it was structuralism, and now it is something else. I practically don’t dare use the word ‘structuralist’ anymore, since it has been so badly deformed. I am certainly not the father of structuralism.”

But Mr. Lévi-Strauss’s version of structuralism may end up surviving post-structuralism, just as he survived most of its avatars. His monumental four-volume work, “Mythologiques,” may ensure his legacy, as a creator of mythologies if not their explicator.

The final volume ends by suggesting that the logic of mythology is so powerful that myths almost have a life independent from the peoples who tell them. In his view, they speak through the medium of humanity and become, in turn, the tools with which humanity comes to terms with the world’s greatest mystery: the possibility of not being, the burden of mortality.

Dallas Art News » Anime, Manga and Art at the El Paso Museum of Art

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:15:41 -0700

Dallas Art News » Anime, Manga and Art at the El Paso Museum of Art: japAN/AMerica: Anime, Manga,...

V&A - The Golden Age of Couture - Exhibition Terrific...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:56:23 -0600

V&A - The Golden Age of Couture - Exhibition

Terrific interactive.

Media Converter - the fastest free online audio and video converter

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:18:08 -0600

Media Converter - the fastest free online audio and video converter

kateoplis: Wim Wenders | Lounge Painting #1, Gila Bend, Arizona...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:48:34 -0600

kateoplis:

Wim Wenders | Lounge Painting #1, Gila Bend, Arizona (1983)